What's good beginner sushi?

Salmon is easy as well as unagi (eel) which is usually served with a good sweet(ish) sauce on it

My honest opinion? California roll (no fish at all). This way you won’t kill yourself with salmonella if you do it wrong.

There are many types of vegetable sushi including cucumber, avocado, and futo-maki which has several types including gourd strips and carrot. Shrimp, eel, octopus and a few others are usually cooked. With respect to your question I believe you’re asking what kind of raw fish is good to start with; personally I’d start with yellowtail tuna. It doesn’t have a fish taste (assuming it’s fresh) and it has a lovely texture. Mix some soy sauce and wasabi first and dip it in that, follow it up with a pickled ginger chaser.

Are you buying it or making it?

If you’re buying, try a philly roll or a shrimp tempura roll. Pretty basic and yummy.

If you want something cooked, go with unagi.

@noelleptc the eel is cooked…

Edit: now that I typed this I see someone already pointed that out and you still said you didn’t like. Sorry.

@noelleptc aren’t they yummy? wish I had one now.

Tuna & Avacado Sushi is really good, and not too scary. Salmon is great.

@noelleptc I like any seafood if you cook it first.

I would say eel, shrimp tempura and of course, the basic california roll. Spider rolls are amazing as well and have all cooked ingredients. OM NOM SOFT SHELL CRAB

though as I look up it apears youve tried most of the “beginner sushi”

If your trying to stay away from raw stuff try any of the tempura types. I really do love me some raw tuna or salmon though. Soooooo fucking good

Anything with the name of the fish in the title.. so not rainbow roll or Super Mario Roll.

@noelleptc what did you think?

The Tuna Roll seems to be one of the easiest to take for those unfamiliar with raw fish. Understand that this fish must be absolutely fresh. The stinky stuff we sell in our Fish Markets here would kill you if you ate it raw. Sushi/sashimi quality fish must be so fresh it has no noticable fishy odor at all.

Of you go the whole 9 yeards and decide to try sashimi, try tuna, salmon and definitely the yellow-tail if they have any. It is divine.

I have to concur with @ETpro but get them spicy!! Spicy Tuna Rolls ROCK!! YuuuuuUUUUUMMM!

@noelleptc ahh missed that part. Yeaa always good to go with a classic ya know you love. But you still need to expand your tastes a bit :P

@noelleptc I hear ya. I do the same thing. I find one thing at restaurants I like and stick with that. I am sometimes afraid to try new dishes because what if its not half as good as the one i KNOW i love. Then im stuck with some dish that sucks and have to pay for it on top of that. The whole time thinking, damn why didnt I order <x>

Before I became the sushi fiend that I am now, I was totally grossed out by fish in general and raw fish in particular. The guy I was dating at the time convinced me to try sushi by telling me that if I didn’t like it, I never had to eat it again. He bought me some salmon maki rolls and I was absolutely hooked. I would say try anything with salmon in it. The taste of it is not as extreme or as off-putting as you might imagine and it’s not a fantastic texture as well. Oh, and it really, really shouldn’t smell fishy at all. If it does, it’s not fresh and you’d be better off not eating it.

@Rhodentette You are absolutely right about the smell, and I think that’s why many Americans are stunned by the idea of eating raw fish. They are thinking the stuff that is sold in most fish markets. The Japanese would consider that rotten fish. They wouldn’t even eat it cooked unless they would starve without it. The fish for sushi or sashimi must be perfectly fresh such that it has no fishy odor whatsoever. The best sashimi restaurants in Japan have the fish live in large tanks. They pull them out and prepare them immediately.